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Everything is Strange

A Library Gallery exhibition by Anna Lyle

There is a new exhibition in the Library Gallery! You should make some time to visit the MCAD Library to see Anna Lyle's exhibition: Everything is Strange.

Exhibition: Wednesday, January 18–Tuesday, February 7 MCAD Library Gallery

Exhibition Introduction by the artist: Over the past few years, I have been creating work representing fabric and the human figure, intersecting and morphing into each other. This exploration began as small graphite drawings on paper a few years ago. These tiny, intricate, and obscure drawings are very curious to me and led to me branching off into large drawings on paper, large paintings on paper, and then drawings on wood panel. There are many modes that this morphing and intersection has taken in my visual work. In between these drawings on paper, paintings on paper, and drawings on wood panel, I created more formal paintings on wood panel that spoke to a more crisp and clear reality of fabric and figure interacting in the same space (www.annalyle.com/unraveling). These works truly informed my more abstract "anatomical fabric" pieces, mining conceptual inspiration from deconstructing ideologies and learning about place and purpose in the world outside of the Southern Baptist Christian culture in which I grew up.

For this particular exhibition, I am showing my process to final creation; the whole breadth of study. I find that seeing these various scales and modes of abstraction through mark-making intertwining with the figure is intriguing and a deep well of discovery for the viewer.

Recommended library books:

Alison Watt: Fold: New Paintings,1996-97, by Alison Watt

All Wet: Marilyn Minter, by Marilyn Minter, David Desrimais, and Mathieu Cénac

Gender/body/knowledge: Feminist Reconstructions of Being and Knowing, by Alison M. Jaggar and Susan Bordo

The Wisdom of Insecurity: a Message for an Age of Anxiety, by Alan Watts

Existential Psychology, by Rollo May

*Due to COVID-19 campus access has been modified. Please continue to check the school’s COVID-19 page for updates.

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Everything is Strange

A Library Gallery exhibition by Anna Lyle

There is a new exhibition in the Library Gallery! Please make some time to visit the MCAD Library to see Anna Lyle's exhibition: Everything is Strange. 

Exhibition:  Wednesday, January 18–Tuesday, February 7 MCAD Library Gallery

Exhibition Introduction by the artist: Over the past few years, I have been creating work representing fabric and the human figure, intersecting and morphing into each other. This exploration began as small graphite drawings on paper a few years ago. These tiny, intricate, and obscure drawings are very curious to me and led to me branching off into large drawings on paper, large paintings on paper, and then drawings on wood panel. There are many modes that this morphing and intersection has taken in my visual work. In between these drawings on paper, paintings on paper, and drawings on wood panel, I created more formal paintings on wood panel that spoke to a more crisp and clear reality of fabric and figure interacting in the same space (www.annalyle.com/unraveling). These works truly informed my more abstract "anatomical fabric" pieces, mining conceptual inspiration from deconstructing ideologies and learning about place and purpose in the world outside of the Southern Baptist Christian culture in which I grew up.

For this particular exhibition, I am showing my process to final creation; the whole breadth of study. I find that seeing these various scales and modes of abstraction through mark-making intertwining with the figure is intriguing and a deep well of discovery for the viewer.

Recommended library books:

Alison Watt: Fold: New Paintings,1996-97, by Alison Watt

All Wet: Marilyn Minter, by Marilyn Minter, David Desrimais, and Mathieu Cénac

Gender/body/knowledge: Feminist Reconstructions of Being and Knowing, by Alison M. Jaggar and Susan Bordo

The Wisdom of Insecurity: a Message for an Age of Anxiety, by Alan Watts

Existential Psychology, by Rollo May

*Due to COVID-19 campus access has been modified. Please continue to check the school’s COVID-19 page for updates.

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Holding Space

A Library Gallery exhibition by Alexis Schramel

New exhibition in the Library Gallery! Please make a detour to the MCAD Library to see Alexis Schramel's installation: Holding Space.

Exhibition: Tuesday, November 29–Friday, December 16, 2022 MCAD Library Gallery

Poetry Reading: Tuesday, December 6 MCAD Library Gallery 6:00 p.m.

Introduction to the installation by Alexis Schramel: Holding Space is a site-specific installation, that shifts and changes with each iteration. The catalyst for this installation was initiated in response to my need for human connection through being physically, mentally, and emotionally there for other humans and non-humans. Reflecting on the patterns of my life, I associate autumn with pain, loss, decay, displacement, and transition. This installation is a way of sitting and moving with these emotions. I imagine how this installation solidifies and complicates how I understand the relationships and spaces I inhabit now and in the future. I believe by holding space for each other we can find a tender and loving space which we all carry. Together.

Artist statement: Alexis Schramel is a queer artist practicing across disciplines for exploration within social practice, bio-wilderness, collaboration, and installation. She grew up rooted in rural farming communities of the Driftless Area along the Mississippi River. Growing up in this region, she explores the whimsy and brutality of nature during her childhood. She attempts to make sense of the unspoken and unseen materialization of the senses related to site-specific installations and human experience. Her work experiments with the thresholds of sensory perception- looking and seeing, hearing and listening, giving attention and awareness to what lies in between. 

Recommended library books:

The Poetics of Space, by Gaston Bachelard and M. Jolas

Uta Barth: to Draw with Light, by Uta Barth

The Art of Light + Space, by Jan Butterfield

Hiding Places: Memory in the Arts, by Amy Chaloupka, Leslie Umberger, and Anne Davis Basting

Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Remembering the Running Fence, by Brian O’Doherty, Christo, Jeanne-Claude, G. Wayne Clough, Edwin C. Anderson, Elizabeth Broun, and George Gurney

Whole Cloth, by Mildred Constantine and Laurel Reuter

Art Therapy for Children: Activities for Individuals and Small Groups, by Jodi Dorson

Ann Hamilton: Habitus, by Ann Hamilton, Patricia C. Phillips, Susan Lubowsky Talbott, Natalie Shapero, and Susan Stewart

Agnes Martin: the Distillation of Color, by Agnes Martin, Durga Chew-Bose, Olivia Laing, and Bruce Hainley

Vitamin T: Threads & Textiles in Contemporary Art, by Jenelle Porter, Louisa Elderton, Rebecca Morrell, and Catalina Imizcoz

Do Ho Suh: Drawings, by Do-Ho Suh, Rochelle Steiner, Clara Kim, and Elizabeth A. T. Smith

Glass, by Judy Tuwaletstiwa, Laura Addison, Ivy Bridgewater, Tina Oldknow, Diana Gaston, and Jean Norelli

*Due to COVID-19 campus access has been modified. Please continue to check the school’s COVID-19 page for updates.

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Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update. The Library Gallery is Closed Temporarily during the COVID-19 Outbreak.

Tanvi Kulkarni and Anavi Mullick will be having a reception in the Library Gallery for their exhibition titled: Transitory Stationary.

Reception:      Update from MCAD Library on COVID-19:      The reception for the current show in Library      Gallery has been canceled.

Exhibition:      March 16–April 12

Transitory Stationary consists of work by Tanvi Kulkarni and Anavi Mullick. A combination of paintings and artist's books, the work is an investigation of self and of relationships to people and place, through narrative. While representational art tells the viewer a story from the perspective of the artist, abstract art lets the viewer determine their own story from the artist’s work. A combination of abstract and representational imagery, the work reflects their thoughts and emotions.

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Join us in the library for the opening reception of Jamie Kubat and Kerri Mulcare’s Knowing & Nothing: Seeking Intimacy Through an Absent Presence exhibition.

Opening reception: Tuesday, February 26 MCAD Library Gallery noon–1:00 p.m.

Exhibition will be on display: February 25–March 17, 2019

New work by Jamie Kubat & Kerri Mulcare that explores themes around the body and memory through their experimentation with paper casting, natural dye processes and materials, and the book as both object and installation.

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Now on display in the Library Gallery: Between Places, new works by Cassandra Cook. The exhibition will be on display through Sunday, February 17, 2019. Mark your calendars for the reception on Wednesday, February 13, noon–1:00 p.m. Between Places is new work exploring the ideas around journey, destination, displacement, memory, and place within the mundane. Documentation of video landscape crossing the state​ ​line of Michigan and Ohio is displayed on an iPod. Along with documentation in places with a film camera with scanned in negatives being used for xerox photo transfer ma onto fabric, and paper made into an accordion map book.

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Join us in the library for the opening reception of Eli deVries’s Damn Near curated exhibition of artists’ books.

Opening reception: Tuesday, April 23, at noon MCAD Library Gallery

Exhibition will be on display: April 22–May 14

Damn Near showcases artist​s'​​​ books by makers of differing disciplines side by side. Notions of fragility, intimacy, and gentleness concerning the physical object as tangible form are highlighted in this collection of books. With the detailed subject matter varying between each maker, the viewer will be able to discern and relate to how artist​s’ books are approached differently.

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Now on display in the Library Gallery: Gardening as Critical Practice, new prints and writings by Ian Hanesworth. The exhibition will be on display October 25–November 11, 2018.

Gardening as Critical Practice

This exhibition endeavors to position the act of gardening within the realm of artistic, social and critical practice. A series of relief prints depicting local flora are accompanied by a selection of writings that establish a critical context through poetic meditations and cross-disciplinary research. The craft-oriented processes of natural dyeing, relief printing and woodworking consider attention as a form of gratitude. Reframing gardening as a critical artistic practice encourages a perceptual shift in our understandings of cultural value and the personal dimensions of our relationship to the natural world.

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We’re holding a Call For Art, student competition! Submit your best work and exhibition ideas through April 25th. Exhibiting students will be offered $100.00 stipend. MCAD students fill out a submission here: Library Gallery @MCAD - Call for Art (Fall 2022) 

The form can also be found at the library's web page, the school's News and Events (intranet page), and in the What's Up at MCAD (email newsletter). For more information, contact library@mcad.edu. Poster illustrated by: Yimin Pi (@usagipi)

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Thursday, November 29–Friday, December 14 MCAD Library Gallery

Stop by the Library Gallery to see new prints by Ben Merritt.

Known Body is a selection of prints that revolve around the body in medicine and the ways bodily feeling intersects with language. There are aspects of illness experience that language cannot pierce; yet it is the avenue in which the patient is told to record their experience. How are ill bodies written about in medical texts, and how do patients communicate experiences in the restricted realm of language?

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Join us in the Library Gallery for the opening of Cleo Malone’s PAPER / THREAD 10/19, at noon. Opening Reception: Monday, Oct. 19th noon Library Gallery MCAD Library PAPER / THREAD is a show combining the mediums of fabric, thread, yarn, paper, print, paint, and drawing. It will include pieces Cleo Malone made in the last year that range from large sculptural toilet paper quilts to embroidered book pages. Please stop in for a short + sweet opening reception in the MCAD Library Gallery on Monday, October 19th from noon to one! There will be drinks and cupcakes and maybe cookies too. PAPER / THREAD will be up 10/19 - 11/8 See you there, The Library